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by kevinventullo 1892 days ago
I think that was kind of the point of the research: submitting broken patches to the kernel represents a feasible attack surface which is difficult to mitigate, precisely because kernel maintainers already have such a hard job.
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So what's the null hypothesis here? Human maintainers are infallible? Why this even need to be researched?